CintaNotes Forum

Hi all,

First, great app. Nuff said there.

I read through all of the feature requests and here are a couple of new ones and/or support for existing requests.

1 - Be able to export a single note. My use case is that I create tabs all day in Firefox and then go through them and save out the data for the ones worth keeping, such as recipes and code samples. It would be nice to then save out the notes to individual files instead of one big text file or XML document.

2 - multiple Notes files. As in the #1 above, I will go through web pages and it would be great to gather recipes in one file, code samples in another file, a conference in another file, etc.

Thanks and I'll go register now.

Please make posible this feature: dragging/moving notes up and down in order to set priority. Thanks.

Another useful feature that ocurred to me just now would be some kind of interface for referencing CN notes from elsewhere (shortcuts, other apps, whatever). To make myself clearer: if CN is intalled, make it handle cintanotes::[noteID] for an individual note or cintanotes::[term] for a search -- if using CN in portable mode, then path to exe would have to be declared, like this a:\PortableAPPS\CintaNotes.exe::[noteID]...

It would be even better if CN could detect drag'n'drop and create such links automagically.

I'm using CN furiously, so this kind of reveries just happen all the time...

I did not see it in the new features list, but I noticed that it is indeed included in the latest release M7.

Thanks!

Cheers,

Eddy

Yes, I forgot to mention it, but it's there)

Thank you for this feedback!
Well, not exactly "dragging", but now you can move notes up/down using Alt+Up/Down keys. In the next version I'm going to add
Alt+Home/End and context menu entries for these commands.
Does it fit the bill for you?

Hello Guest,

sorry it took me so long to get back to you. Thanks for your feedback!


Will be in the next version Beta M8, coming out March 15.


This is also already on the roadmap, with high priority. But can't tell you which version will support this. I guess I'll be doing it gradually: first enabling to customize the path to notebook file, then have a list of recently used files, then integrate it into UI (combo-box of notebooks)...

Don't worry, of course the encryption will be optional! )

I'm really liking your app. Great job.

There's one feature that would make this a really useful application for me.

Have the ability to associate a custom note field with a hot key. The idea would be whenever the hot key was pressed your application would search the currently highlighted note for the custom field and then copy the contents to the clipboard. The custom note text could look something like this, FieldName::<<Text to copy to clipboard>>.

An example note text body might look something like this:

================================
Some note text...

Username::<<John Doe>>
Password::<<pa$$word>>

some more note text
================================

You could provide a half dozen or so predefined hot keys where we would fill in the custom field name.

Mike

Hello ccloao,


Yes I guess it is possible. I'll put it on the roadmap.


Well now you can press F4. After tag sidebar is there, I'll see if can make the notes list more interactive..

Thanks for your suggestions and hope you'll enjoy using CN.

Hello Aquilai,

thanks a lot for your post, sorry it took me so long to get to you..

Yes I'm going to make notes list more interactive.
Well now there is)
I'm going to add possibility to tag imported notes. After that you will be able to search for these tags and delete the notes you don't need. This + more powerful search is much easier to do as compared to a separate dialog with an extra check-boxed notes list.
This is an interesting idea, thanks. I'll give it a thought.

Thanks for your input!

Hello behnam,


I've thought about this, and couldn't get around this problem: say you have two colored tags, and both get assigned to a note. Which color should be the note then? I guess I'll leave colors to sections (tabs).

That would be a problem since I don't have access to any TabletPC. I guess there should exist plenty of programs which add Ink support to other programs which use standard controls. Or did you mean something else?

Hi eddy,

sorry it took me so long to get to this message!


Which is the problem they are solving here?

Tag autocomplete is already in development)

See above what I've written about colors.

Tag sidebar on the way.

Could you describe the UI here?

I guess tags can also be used for this, we just need to provide convenient UI.

I'll do my best here, the motto being like in C++ - you' shouldn't pay for what you're not using.

Thanks for your input Eddy, hope you'll enjoy CN in future as well)

Hello danei,
sorry for the delay in answer!

>1) sorting notes with drag&drop, even in search mod.

In BetaM7 you can use Alt+Up/Down. I'll make it more polished in next versions. Drag& drop would be more difficult to do, but I guess I'll get to it sooner or later, too.

>2) capture hyperlinks & anchors in web page.

Already in plans.

>3) using hotkey+click to save images to attachment, & ability to insert images in note. I don't need other rich formating except image&hyperlink who carry infomation. Maybe it's a little difficult to apply in opera because opera doesn't surpport rich text copy&paste.

Also on the roadmap already.

>4) delete empty lines automaticly.

What if they are used for text layout?

Thanks for your input and hope you won't regret migrating to CN from Opera notes)

Well, right now I've defined a set of features which I consider absolutely essential for CintaNotes free edition:

- tag autocomplete, sidebar and picker
- tabs (sections) on top (or bottom) with drag-and-drop support
- multiple notebooks
- links inside notes
- note sorting and reordering
- search wildcards ? and *, search alternates with |
- undo/redo
- note recycle bin
- multi-lingual UI
- more interactive notes list

Less essential features are:
- opening multiple note windows and in-place editing;
- check for new versions command;
- printing notes (yes, you can always print from notepad, but..)

The features I plan for commercial version are:
- Images and files attachments
- Browse notes by source application, by link
- Subsection tabs on the right side, like in OneNote (optional, per-section, off by default)
- Regular expressions search
- Saved searches
- Basic formatting
- Rule-based autotagging
- Calendar pane - clicking and dragging selects a time period
- Parameterized tags (like rating:5 or price:1200) with search support
- Alarms in notes
- Auto merging
- Encryption

As you see, there's quite a bunch of features here. I don't know if I manage to get all of them implemented. But I assure you that those of them which I don't consider essential and organic for CintaNotes will be turned off by default.

Looks great to me, I wouldn't now add anything </bloat!>


Great! These will make CintaNotes nearly perfect for me!


another excellent feature that will be useful for those of us using CintaNotes for prioritizing our Todo lists as well as any number of other things!

I've recently been thinking a note archiving feature would be useful. This could be implemented as a special notebook when multiple notebook support is added. The idea is to move really old or seldom used notes to an archive. An example is when using CintaNotes for a Todo list, or for research projects. A check box could be added to the note editor view, or a special tag used to move the note to the archive notebook when no longer needed or the task is complete. This would keep the working notebook small, but allow search if I wanted to see what I had completed in the past. Haven't really thought out all of the details yet...

Hi!

Nice App! As an notes power user i'd request the following features:

- Custom sorting with drag and drop, by title, date, etc.
- Custom coloring of single notes for fast and intuitive recognition - Maybe on a category basis:
- Note categories maybe with tabs

Greets from Salzburg!

Johannes

i also want to add images, will it be possbile ??

See the feature list from the developer above, and quoted below: